I love WordPress and prefer it (easy to use, lots of options without having to know computer-ese, stats, etc.). I think you can ‘buy’ more space from them which would make it easier than starting from a new platform and trying to move your site. Good luck with whichever decision you make!

we decided to stay at wp, there are too much things I don’t like when I use google’s blogspot…. if we can, we will go pro with wordpress. I’ve heard that they help you with blog-moving and you will not lose your readers…

I have a blog on each. My cat blog is on Blogger. I find Blogger to be much more user-friendly than WordPress. Maybe I am just used to it more. Dakota’s blog is on WordPress. I can follow people on both formats. I just have a MUCH harder time adding widgets and all with wordpress. Feel free to email me if you have any questions I can help with! My email is cgittleman at mi dot rr dot com.

Dear Noodle I would luffs to be able to give you advice only…well…to be pawfectly honest I am amazed that I haf a blog at all, see it took Mum 3 months to set it up and she still has no idea how she did it!!!!
See what I’m up against *sigh*
Loves and licky kisses
Princess Leah xxx

I cannot offer a comparative opinion because I have only used WP however, the only (literally) complaint I have with WP are the questionable stats. I am using the free “model’ and love what can be done with it…. especially as reader appeal generally dictates some level of visual simplicity. As/when I am up to capacity with data, my first choice will be to look at the cost to simply increase my allocation.

I find I don’t visit the Blogger blogs as much as the WordPress ones, because I don’t get notifications if someone responds to my comments there (I know I can get emails, but tI get too many if I sign up to follow a popular thread and it isn’t worth it).

We have had blogs on Blogger and WordPress. We have tried Blogger several times and every time ended back up on WordPress. We are now on the premium WordPress which is $99.00 a year. We had so many issues with Blogger that we have decided to stay with WordPress and to us it is worth the yearly fee. It is so much easier for us to follow and comment on WordPress blogs. We know you can export your blog from Blogger to WordPress and you can also export your blog from Wordress. We are not sure but we think Blogger has a limit too before you have to purchase more space. Hope this has been of some help to you. Hugs

You are using the free WordPress.org right now. If you switch to the $99 per year WordPress.com that I use, all your current blogs, media files, etc. automatically goes with you. I personally love wordpress. I got an email that they also have a wordpress.blog platform available now, which is really cool. Why don’t you google that? Oh, and I have the same trouble following Blogger sites and comment replies.

I prefer the control and flexibility of WP to blogger, but it’s definitely a personal preference. As for the email address, people will write (email at gmail.com) to prevent spambots from scraping the email address.

Crikey ….. who knew you ran out of space. Now Mum’s worried. We are on blogspot. Only because we didn’t know anything else existed but Mum’s used to it and couldn’t change even if she wanted to. She found it hard enough setting this one up. She’s not very bright. We don’t have any trouble following wordpress blogs.

You will regret a move to blogger. As fur reading all of a post in a reader, dat’s somethin’ each blogger has control over themselves. there are lots of great readers out there. We and a lot of bloggers use feedly.

I too prefer wordpress. Are you out of space for pictures? I’m not even sure text is limited… You could make a ‘Noodle Archive’ — you can have more than one free WP site, after all–and move old posts there, link to it from the active blog. A lot of work is all it costs. Another option for images is to use a free image hosting site like photobucket. It’s easy to upload photos there and link them to your blog–but it is not as comfortable as just using the image feature of wordpress. I edit most of my posts in html view anyway, so for me using the pictures actual links instead on clicking on them is fairly easy, but if you’re not comfortable with that, it take a bit getting used to.

Mistur Gord ALL WAYSS checkss thee names as hee knows mee getss mail….Mee meeted Mistur Gord this Summer an hee said mee was a hansum fell-oh…. an frum that point hee makes sure mee getss mee mail….
An hee wundered if you were a Kat or a Doggie, mew mew mew……

I wish our mail person was that nice. Sometimes, they have a package for us that needs a signature, and they pretend we’re not home so they don’t have to pull all the way up our drive. Dad complained about it on Monday at the post office. *ear licks*

Well how ruuuuude iss THAT Noodle mee Moodle???
Thee parcel fell-oh Mistur Mikey iss like that here. Hee doess not even buzz thee apartment; hee ritess out thee ticket an sticks it inn mailbox. So peepull HAVE TO go pick fingss uppy! LadyMum chewed him out inn thee Spring an hee was better an now hee iss back to beein lazy……
An hee KNOWSS LadyMum has trubbull with walking as hee had hip surgery last Winter…..hee iss THAT meen!!! 😦

Except for the inability to use plug ins on WordPress.com (the implications of which which I failed to understand at the time), my extensive research before I began 5 years ago, led to WordPress as THE choice at the time.

How about a second WordPress blog – like NoodleToo – with a link from #1 to facilitate a gradual migration? Is that possible? I know you can have more than one WordPress blog, but I’m not sure if the limits remain the same or if you get to start again.

I can say that I don’t follow many non-WordPress blogs personally, because I have to jump through more hoops to comment, I can’t “like” easily, etc. (and I don’t get notifications except by email – and I already get waaay too much of that). So although your readers will be ABLE to follow you wherever you go, you might find that it could take a while to get them in the habit of doing it (and you might lose a few).

I also run across waaaay too many ads that freeze my browser on other domains, whatever that says about format. btw- How much notice did you get about the need to do something about limits? How did you find out?

We agree about the jumping through hoops. Starting a 2nd one is a great idea! When I look at my media library, it tells me how much space I’ve used. Right now I’m at 2.0 gb out of 3. I’m just researching my options before I run out of space 🙂

I have had a blogger, but it’s seem like it lacks serious writers. While I know not many of us are going to end up on gmm or anything, but I like the recipes and pet blogs.-Kylo-Ren and Padfootblack mom